Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

I had to put Paris down, our first LGD, Great Pyrenees, 1 month to the day after BJ passed. She was Daddy’s Girl. How do you tell a dog that Daddy isn’t coming home?
She got in the truck backseat and I had the vet come out to the truck. She was peaceful. I was a wreck.

God Bless Teresa for finding someone to come to your house for Sassy.

 

[Mini Horses]

My DD had a home care downer for her old dog. It was expensive but, in reality, she could not have taken her to the office. It was time & she was 14. Had been experiencing pain & deterioration.

 

[SageHill]

{{HUGS}}

 

[fuzzi]

I had to put Paris down, our first LGD, Great Pyrenees, 1 month to the day after BJ passed. She was Daddy’s Girl. How do you tell a dog that Daddy isn’t coming home?
She got in the truck backseat and I had the vet come out to the truck. She was peaceful. I was a wreck.

God Bless Teresa for finding someone to come to your house for Sassy.

Same situation with Cleo, PTS one month after Ron died. But Cleo loved everyone, so going to the vet was doable.

Ron was the Love of Her Life.

 

[Mike CHS]

This has been the week for refrigerator work. We have one on our porch that has not been staying as cold as it needs to be but we have found that fridge service quickly escalates into the price of a new one so we were considering replacing that one. Then our main fridge had issues with the icemaker and since that one is fairly new, we called our service tech to get him out. I was coming back into the house and as I got even with that refrigerator, there was water running out from under it. I turned it off at the wall and started getting the water up. After all of that we decided to buy a new one to hook up in the house and use the icemaker on the new one and move the one with the bad icemaker to the porch since there is no water hookup out there anyway.

They just delivered and hooked up the new one and hauled off the oldest one so hopefully refrigerator issues are over for awhile.

 

[Ridgetop]

We want a larger fridge but need to remove a couple cabinets to fit it in the kitchen. The refridgerator cabinet built when the house was new is too small for a modern 36" wide fridge. And too short for a modern height fridge. The current fridge that came with the house is still working and DS1 fixed the ice maker so no real rush. Once we do the kitchen cabinet work and get a new larger fridge the old one will go in the barn for livestock meds and bottled water. Maybe we can hook it up to the new well and have ice out there too! Save having to traipse back to the house for cold water.

 

[Mike CHS]

@Ridgetop, we would have had the same issues with cabinets that you have in the original configuration here but when we renovated, we put a full wall of cabinets along half of the room and literally no cabinets over the rest. We wound up gaining 4 cubic feet with what we now have and we use an apartment sized fridge down at the shop for sheep meds and water bottles.

After writing all of that, I had to remind myself that you have been here.

 

[Ridgetop]

You did a beautiful job on your place. New homes come with a standard 36" w x 72" high fridge space in the cabinetry. Or the fridge space is open on one side to allow a 36" fridge. This house was built in 1972 and while it is sturdy brick construction and well insulated, it is showing it's age. The old oak cabinets in the kitchen are solid with stationary shelves and there is a blind cabinet on top and bottom. I have installed pullout wire baskets in the base cabinets which have helped a great deal. When we build the island we will use a purchased deep drawer cabinet for pots and pans and utilize some older oak cabinets with pullout shelves. The upper cabinets are just going to have to stay the way they are since I don't want to pull out the entire kitchen and install new cabinetry. The cabinet doors are oak plywood so it s tempting to replace the doors but . . . . $$$ LOL

We are currently using a dorm fridge in the spare room for the meds but it is not large enough for the amount of antibiotics I stockpiled before the clamp down. I have 2 boxes of small bottles of Penn (1 doz each) in the kitchen fridge and one of the produce drawers is full of other vaccination meds and antibiotics that won't fit in the dorm fridge. LOL

 

[Baymule]

I have a side by side refrigerator that came with the house. I hate it. I kept the refrigerator that was in the house in Lindale, a plain no frills cheapo refrigerator. The handle broke off, give you 1 guess who did that, also 1 guess as to who "fixed" it with duct tape.
That one is in the added on utility room. Nice to have an extra for the big stuff like pizza boxes.

 

[Ridgetop]

I do like having an extra fridge for emergencies, etc. Same with freezers.